Cheap web hosting that stays cheap
£0.99 a month, billed monthly, with the first 30 days free. Not an introductory rate — that is the renewal price too. NVMe storage, DirectAdmin and free SSL included.
Exactly what “free” means here
- Free for 30 days. A full hosting account with nothing held back — no feature restrictions during the trial.
- No card details required to start. You can sign up and run your site for the whole 30 days without giving us any payment information.
- Nothing can be charged automatically, because we have nothing to charge. Payment details are only taken if you decide to continue.
- Then £0.99/month if you choose to carry on. That is the ongoing price — it does not rise after the first year.
- No setup fee and no hidden charges of any kind.
- You bring your own domain. Traxio does not sell domain names, so you will need one you already own or register elsewhere.
Where cheap hosting hides its costs
The advertised price of budget hosting is usually not the price. The pattern is consistent across the industry and worth naming:
The renewal cliff. £1.99 a month sounds excellent until you read that it applies to the first 12 or 36 months only, after which it becomes £8.99. Because the low rate usually requires paying three years up front, the real decision is made long before you notice.
Paid extras that should be standard. SSL certificates charged annually. Backups as a paid add-on. A fee to migrate your site in. A fee to restore a backup you already paid to have taken.
“Unlimited” that is not. Unlimited storage and bandwidth are always bounded by a fair-use clause several pages into the terms. The number exists; it is simply not on the pricing page.
The domain lock-in. A free domain for year one, renewing at well above market rate, on an account where transferring away is made deliberately tedious.
What a year really costs
£0.99 per month is £11.88 per year. There is no setup fee, no SSL charge, no backup add-on and no cancellation fee, so £11.88 is the total.
You will also need a domain, which Traxio does not sell. Registered directly with a registrar, a .co.uk typically runs £8–£12 a year and a .com £10–£15. Buying it yourself rather than through a host means you own it outright and can move it whenever you like.
So a complete, self-hosted website on your own domain — with SSL, email addresses, WordPress and a real control panel — costs somewhere around £20 to £27 for the first year, and roughly the same every year after. There is no year-two surprise, because there is no year-two price.
Where we are genuinely worse than a £6 host
You do not get a support desk. You get a knowledgebase, tutorials and a community, which is excellent for common problems and slower for unusual ones. You also get modest resource limits — 5GB and 10GB a month — rather than generous ones. If your site is commercially critical, or busy, pay more elsewhere. That is a sincere recommendation, not false modesty.
Traxio Free Start
We stopped running four tiers. There is one plan, it does everything, and it costs less than a coffee per year.
for 30 days — then £0.99/month
- 5GB NVMe SSD storage
- 10GB bandwidth per month
- DirectAdmin control panel
- Free SSL certificate (auto-renewing)
- Softaculous one-click installer
- PHP 7.4 – 8.3, switchable
- MySQL / MariaDB databases
- FTP & file manager access
- Email accounts on your domain
- Cron jobs
- Community-powered support
No card required to start • No setup fee • Bring your own domain
£0.99/month × 12 = £11.88 per year. No setup fee, no SSL fee, no cancellation fee.